Written by
on
30 August, 2010 : 08:30
If the rumours are to be believed it would appear a certain notorious estate manager in Scotland is up to his old tricks again offering canned and trophy hunting on the Dumfries-shire sporting estate ...
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Christina on
27 August, 2010 : 15:00
...We need to know where hunts are hunting, where they are meeting and when they’re going out. If you have any of this information please call our Hunt Crimewatch team on 01483 524250 or email us at c...
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Christina on
27 August, 2010 : 10:35
Have you signed the League’s pledge to never visit a bullfight?
Find out what else you can do...
The League congratulates the Lonely Planet for removing bullfighting images from its online Madrid ga...
Written by
on
27 August, 2010 : 07:00
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive.
I suppose pre-season pheasant theft is bound to happen, but I couldn’t help a wry smile about the story regarding the hundreds of stolen ph...
Written by
on
26 August, 2010 : 12:15
It's not just the UK party conferences the League will be attending, we will also be out and about at the main conferences in Scotland, Northern Ireland and for the first time Wales.
We're all boo...
Written by
on
24 August, 2010 : 11:00
I have just finished reading Linda Colley’s Britons. In the book, Colley make a number of interesting points about the history of fox hunting.
Colley notes that during the eighteenth century, fox...
Written by
on
23 August, 2010 : 21:00
The latest issue of Campaign Update, the League's quarterly magazine, is now available for download. Members and supporters will receive their copy by post in the next few days.
August's issue incl...
Written by
on
20 August, 2010 : 09:30
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive.
Take a step back and ask yourself these two questions: Why do we allow people to hold firearms at home and why do we allow them to use them...
Written by
on
19 August, 2010 : 15:55
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said in a number of speeches that the new government has a ‘progressive’ agenda, and has even tried to make comparisons with the progressive Whig/Liberal governmen...
Written by
on
19 August, 2010 : 13:20
An aspect of bullfighting that not many people may know about is ‘Recortes’ or bull-leaping, a form of bullfighting far less popular than the commonly seen corridas. This is where a bull is released i...
Written by
on
19 August, 2010 : 12:00
Picture the scene: you're tired and disorientated, and a huge crowd of people is swarming all around you. The crowd reaches a point of hysteria and begins to stab you repeatedly with spears, draining ...
Written by
on
19 August, 2010 : 10:25
This week’s edition of Shooting Times and Country Magazine contains some very strongly-worded criticisms of the Countryside Alliance – and all from their own supporter base! Well, guys, you said it! H...
Written by
on
19 August, 2010 : 01:00
Spend a day in our campaigns team, monitoring the guff published by our opponents, and you wonder how they ever have time to do anything else but spread their malicious lies and rumour.
Take yester...
Written by
on
18 August, 2010 : 13:45
The controversial subject of tail docking of dogs has reared its head again in the form of a recent study by the University of Bristol and the Royal Veterinary College. Among the findings of the study...
Written by
on
17 August, 2010 : 10:45
The autumn Party Conferences are just around the corner, and preparations here at League HQ are well underway. We have a stand at all three main conferences, and a fringe event at which we'll be discu...
Written by
on
13 August, 2010 : 13:20
Sometimes you really couldn’t make this stuff up, and when I refer to ‘this stuff’ I mean the complete disregard certain elements of the hunting community have for the rest of us.
The subject of hu...
Written by
on
13 August, 2010 : 09:00
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive.
Sometimes it is more instructive to look closely at what some people are actually doing than it is to listen to what they are saying. The b...
Written by
on
12 August, 2010 : 13:44
BBC Complaints
PO Box 1922
DARLINGTON
DL3 0UR
Dear Sir or Madam
Coast, series 5 episode 5, Galway to Arranmore Island
A report on the ‘thriving’ population of Irish hares on Oyster Island featur...
Written by
on
11 August, 2010 : 18:00
One expects very little of the Daily Telegraph, and their fawning sycophantic coverage of bloodsports never disappoints. In the run up to the 'Glorious' Twelfth tomorrow, the DT website carried a piec...
Written by
on
10 August, 2010 : 16:30
Things just got very serious for two ‘countrymen’ at Shrewsbury Crown Court.
Messrs Paul Billington and Gerard Monk were both convicted of attempting to kill a badger, digging for badgers, three char...
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Christina on
10 August, 2010 : 09:45
It is with great sadness that I announce the death of Stanley Fox at the grand old age of 12.5 years.
After suffering a traumatic experience as a cub Stanley Fox went to a wildlife rescue centre run ...
Written by
on
10 August, 2010 : 09:00
One thing is for certain if you are a dog owner - there will always be people who think they know better than you when it comes to dogs and their welfare. I remember an incident where a friend was wid...
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Katy on
09 August, 2010 : 07:00
The League is concerned to hear that Cobble Hey Farm, near Lancaster, is refusing to back down on its decision to stage a Pig Racing event.
Pig racing is a very distressing experience for the pig...
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Christina on
06 August, 2010 : 17:17
Our local group in Durham is going to be out and about tomorrow (despite forecasts of rain) collecting donations and talking to members of the public about our campaigns.
They are one of our smalle...
Written by
on
06 August, 2010 : 08:11
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive.
The League Against Cruel Sports is aptly named. As a charitable organisation we seek to provide human benefit by promoting and facilitating...
Written by
on
05 August, 2010 : 12:35
…but there’s still an awfully long way to go. Catalonia may have banned the brutality of the bullfight last week, but other cruel fiesta events such as the infamous “Toro de Fuego” remain legal in man...
Written by
on
05 August, 2010 : 09:02
Turn to page three of this week's Countryman's Weekly and it's very clear that silly season is upon us.
In an article headed 'League chief seeks advice from the Countryside Alliance', they say:
...
Written by
on
05 August, 2010 : 08:00
It has been another remarkable week in the media life of the fox. In rather the same way that the apparent fox attacks on the Koupparis girls led to hysteria against foxes, this week's story of the Ur...
Written by
on
05 August, 2010 : 00:30
We have been contacted by a Channel 4 television programme who've asked us if any of our supporters would like to win ... a house.
Here's the email:
We are looking for people to take part in fil...
Written by
on
04 August, 2010 : 23:07
We were booked to do an interview on talkSPORT on Wednesday evening at 10.15pm, to talk about the Urban Fox Hunters story.
They called our interviewee at 10.05pm to say that they had rearranged the...
Written by
on
04 August, 2010 : 15:20
An opinion poll commissioned by the Wall Street Journal has revealed that 90% of Americans support Catalonia’s recent decision to ban bullfighting. Over one thousand people took part in the poll, and ...
Written by
on
04 August, 2010 : 11:50
I know this kind of thing isn't usually the preserve of a blog but I thought it might prove useful to those of you who follow and support the work we do at the League.
Many of you might be scratchi...
Written by
on
03 August, 2010 : 06:00
The idea that the League's eighty year campaign to ban hunting was based on class prejudice is probably the most common pro-hunt argument we hear.
Interestingly, it's also one of the easiest to deb...
Written by
on
02 August, 2010 : 23:00
Over the last few days we have been inundated by calls and emails from supporters concerned with the internet birth of a group calling themselves 'Urban Fox Hunters'.
On the group's blog and Facebo...